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These sentences, taken from English literature, have been jumbled up like an anagram; see if you can piece them back together.

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61. brain up theories already facile his building was tentative. Freeman Wills Crofts

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His facile brain was already building up tentative theories.

62. at times whistle three blown same shrilly a the time was. John Buchan

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At the same time a whistle was blown shrilly three times.

63. architects her dance do with I ever asked you. A. A. Milne

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“Do you ever dance with architects?” I asked her.

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October 13 NS

September 30 OS

The War of 1812 : In the year that Napoleon’s quest for European Empire faltered at Moscow, President Madison of the USA came to his aid.

The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.

Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.

England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.

Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.

Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.

An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.

Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.

Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.

Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.

Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.

Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.

Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?

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